As translators are quick to tell you, translation is more than just transcribing words from a 2 way dictionary verbatim – there is nuance, metaphor and culture that need to be taken into account. And that’s where these digital natives are winners – they can think in Twitter:

This is not an attempt to tweet mindlessly the entire contents of Ulysses, word-for-word, 140 characters at a time. That would be dull and impossible. What is proposed here is a recasting or a reimagining of the reading experience of this novel, start to finish, within the confines of a day-long series of tweets from a global volunteer army of Joyce-sodden tweeps.